domain Appraise PLEASE

[TechZone]

Appraise PLEASE

Appraisals please as I recently picked these up. Any reasonable offers as well, PM me.

Thanks!


Litigate.pro

Renewable.pro
Geothermal.pro
WindPower.pro
BioFuel.pro
BioFuels.pro

Ping.pro
KickOff.pro

 

[GreyfishCreative]

$Reg Fees all the way. I've never even heard of .pro, haha. I don't see much value in these domains. Maybe if you had "Mac.pro" or something like that where the extension "pro" could actually be incorporated.

 

[ddesigns]

well reg fee... or may be less due to .pro..

 

[InvisionTech]

Techzone,

I don't think anybody over here can really gauge what .PRO or any domain is worth. As energy demands around the world grow, these type of domains will be harder and harder to register. If you hold on to them they will be worth something.

Domain appraiser should be done by someone OTHER than those who may be interested in your domains be it .com or .pro or .mobi. remember, these are the same people who keep tab on dropped domains and register them once you don't renew because they are worth "reg fee."

Cheers

 

[GreyfishCreative]

I highly disagree with everything InvisionTech said except this part...

As energy demands around the world grow, these type of domains will be harder and harder to register.

InvisionTech is right about this...
These domains will be hard to REGISTER but other than that I don't see people paying anything more than REGISTRATION fees for your domains.

InvisionTech is extremely wrong about this...
When I give you my appraisal of your domain I am telling you the maximum amount of money I would pay for it. This forum isn't about tricking people into thinking their domains are worthless so we can wait for them to expire and then register them for ourselves.

I would pay nothing more than reg fee for these domains, so that is my appraisal.

 

[InvisionTech]

It is not an "appraiser" if you don't take market indicators and market demand into account... not to mention the energy industry.

Nations have gone to war over this energy BS, a lot of people have died over the past half century because of energy rerquirements that their countries have, anything related to that ain't worth no reg fee, IMHO.

 

[GreyfishCreative]

InvisionTech this is not meant to be a professional appraisal service, this is merely a forum for discussion over the value of a domain, a value in most cases based upon the users opinion in the maximum amount they would pay for the domain. That is why its free. In my opinion though, who better to appraise your domain then the actual consumers in the domain industry, a fancy smancy domain appraisal company can use their fancy smancy appraisal techniques all they want to determine value, but why not just go straight to the source and ask the actual consumers how much its worth to them.

 

[TechZone]

Thanks for the replies so far!

Any others??

 

[akcampbell]

The strongest domain is Biofuel.pro. This is definitely worth more than renewal fees. In the UK biofuel is becoming big business because high petrol prices are providing an incentive for people to buy used cooking oil from restaurants and convert it into biofuel for their cars. This cuts the cost of fuel by up to 75% and if you make less than 2,500 litres per year it's tax free. Put together a nice mini-site like this http://biofuel.org.uk/ or market it to manufacturers, distributors and resellers of biofuel processor kits. They cost about £2,000 in the UK.

It surprises me that people with such forgettable and ugly .com and .net domains are so narrow minded about alternative extensions they might not have heard of. ddesign's best signature domain is probably HRwebsite.net. The key phrase "HR website" has 96,000 Google uniques. My .pro equivalent is Staff.pro. The single keyword staff has 543,000,000 Google uniques, that's 5000 times "HR website", the combination of keyword and extension "staff pro" has 78,000 Google unique, rising to 409,000 for "staff professional" and finally up to 4,830,000 for "professional staff".

If you are happy playing other people's games and registering the 78 millionth .com, then that's fine, but there will always be people who want something different and unique and are prepared to trek somewhere unexplored and put up with ridicule to find it.

The attitude of the people who own bad .coms today is no different to the attitude of the people who didn't know what the Internet was to people who registered .coms in the early 1990s. When somebody registered Sex.com everybody else thought it was worthless, just like they think .pro is worthless today.

If you put "mobile com" into Google you get 2,340,000 Google uniques, with "mobile pro" you get 23,100,000. The keyword mobile fits the extension .pro 10 ten times better than it fits .com. "Mobile info" has 194,000 Google uniques so mobile fits .pro 100 times better than it fits .info. You can carry on down through .mobi and .biz.

 

[GreyfishCreative]

If you are happy playing other people's games and registering the 78 millionth .com, then that's fine, but there will always be people who want something different and unique and are prepared to trek somewhere unexplored and put up with ridicule to find it.

The reason all 78 million of those people are registering there .com domains is because they know the value of a .com domain, whether you like it or not the average person has no clue that there are other extensions out there, if I told my mom to go to www.example.biz, I'd probably have to repeat that last part. The .com extension is extremely popular and generally the extension viewers type in when they are going to a website. There may be people looking for something different but I would submit to you that if they had the chance to buy "different.com" or "different.pro" they would most definitely buy "different.com".

It surprises me that people with such forgettable and ugly .com and .net domains are so narrow minded about alternative extensions

Its not that the people who own the domain are narrow minded its the people who are going to being typing that "ugly" .com or .net domain into the browser that are narrow minded, there brain will most likely tell them to type in .com or .net.

Techzone, It seems to me like most people giving you the good appraisals for your name have quite the bias towards .pro domains. And I personally think that the only way you will ever get big money for your domains are if one of these people buy them.

It sucks, but you can't deny it, most of the money in the domain industry is in .com, .net, and .org domains.

 

[akcampbell]

I don't disagree with anything you say, people do get confused about anything non .com, I would rather have the .com of a keyword than the .pro, and there is more money in .com, .net and .org domains.

However, I don't think investing in people's stupidity by crowding in .com to the point of registering bad domains is a smart move, you know about .pro and in general the younger generation of Internet users will have a far better knowledge of different domain extensions than early Internet users.

Secondly, of course I would rather have Mobile.com over Mobile.pro but Mobile.com would cost about $20m, Mobile.pro cost me $2,000. That's quite a saving for an extension that fits this keyword tens times better than .com. If I had $20m and the option of buying Mobile.com for $20m or Mobile.pro for $2,000 I would buy Mobile.pro for $2,000 and put the $19.99m in the bank.

Finally, there is more money in .com, .net and .org versus alternatives but it's a bit like investing in a Fortune 500 company versus an unquoted company. My $60,000 investment in .pro bought me a big slice of a small pie. If the .pro pie grows faster than the .com pie, I will be relatively better off in .pro.

 

[mjs]

I don't disagree with anything you say, people do get confused about anything non .com, I would rather have the .com of a keyword than the .pro, and there is more money in .com, .net and .org domains.

However, I don't think investing in people's stupidity by crowding in .com to the point of registering bad domains is a smart move, you know about .pro and in general the younger generation of Internet users will have a far better knowledge of different domain extensions than early Internet users.

Secondly, of course I would rather have Mobile.com over Mobile.pro but Mobile.com would cost about $20m, Mobile.pro cost me $2,000. That's quite a saving for an extension that fits this keyword tens times better than .com. If I had $20m and the option of buying Mobile.com for $20m or Mobile.pro for $2,000 I would buy Mobile.pro for $2,000 and put the $19.99m in the bank.

Finally, there is more money in .com, .net and .org versus alternatives but it's a bit like investing in a Fortune 500 company versus an unquoted company. My $60,000 investment in .pro bought me a big slice of a small pie. If the .pro pie grows faster than the .com pie, I will be relatively better off in .pro.

Unless and until such a time comes that I can speak to the benefits of .PRO ownership in a more proficient manner than yourself, I will generally limit my comments on the subject. That others continue to challenge you on the merits of your .PRO investments is fairly humorous. Time and time again you've hit every pitch out of the park. Perhaps the time has finally come for these would be players to join a .PRO team.

 

[TechZone]

Thanks for the feedback. Any others??

 

[dotprofan]

Well said mjs - I completely agree.

As for appraisals, I think the energy names are clearly the best. Depending on what happens in the markets I think they will be worth a lot (mid to high $x,xxx) in the future.

Litigate.pro seems to be a decent name, I can see a legal firm having interest in it. It doesn't bring up any ads when I google the word Litigate though, so I'm not sure that it will of great value with regard to revenue generation.

I'm not too keen on KickOff and Ping but maybe it's because I don't see them necessarily applying to any kind of professional service or industry.

Unless and until such a time comes that I can speak to the benefits of .PRO ownership in a more proficient manner than yourself, I will generally limit my comments on the subject. That others continue to challenge you on the merits of your .PRO investments is fairly humorous. Time and time again you've hit every pitch out of the park. Perhaps the time has finally come for these would be players to join a .PRO team.

 

[TechZone]

Thanks again for the feedback!

Keep 'em rolling in....